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Contents:
- BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD
- THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
BULLDOGS: ATLANTA’S LTLE GAY BAR THAT ULD
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THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY
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The Atlanta Gay Center opened 1976 Midtown and provid health, legal and social servic for LGBT people. In 1975, at the dawn of dis, Backstreet officially opened for bs at 845 Peachtree Street the heart of the begng, the massive, three-level, 10, 000-square-foot space ( had hoed Lang’s Interrs the 1950s), tered almost exclively to the cy’s burgeong whe gay male populatn.
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